The Dead End
16th June 2017
ZMan cuts to the chase.
Most of the issue that plague our modern societies stem from the unwillingness of our policy makers to consider the obvious solutions. In the 80’s, we had a bum crisis due to the states being forced to fling open the doors to their nervous hospitals. The former patients had no one willing to care for them and no ability to care for themselves, so they ended up on the streets as bums. The obvious answer was to put them back into the asylums, but that was ruled off limits and we still have a bum problem to this day.
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The thing is, the Cloud People do not have a bum problem. They “solved” the “homeless” problem by agreeing to use their tax dollars to build flop houses in your neighborhood and they also make sure the bum services industry is located in your neighborhood. You will never see a homeless shelter next to a Starbucks. The cops in Cloud Country are adept at putting the stray bum on a bus and sending him to Dirt Country, where the shelters are located. After all, they are public servants and that is the humane thing to do.
June 16th, 2017 at 11:30
Never mentioned, of course, is the reason why the states were forced to close their mental hospitals: budget cuts as the result of Reaganomics.
Everybody wants the cat belled, but nobody wants to pay for it.
June 16th, 2017 at 18:02
There is no such thing as ‘Reaganomics’, which is a term invented by tax-and-spend Democrats in order to fool their idiot followers. The budget cuts were in response to massive overspending on Cadillac pension plans for government employees, except that eventually they ran out of other people’s money.